The cipher key furnished by Mr. Donnelly may now be applied to the last pages of Act IV, and the first of Act V, Hamlet. No attempt will be made to work out the whole story. That gladsome task belongs to Mr. Donnelly himself. But enough may be read to show the wondrous ingenuity of Lord Bacon, and to confirm in him the gift of prophecy. “The Great Cryptogram” furnishes, as before stated, five root numbers; the Hamlet cipher uses but two of these, 516 and 523. Pages 73 and 74 of King Henry IV supplied thirty-four “modifiers;” the Hamlet cipher requires but nine, all told. Three of these, 30, 50 and 198 (the last mentioned being reserved for cases where the cipher-hunter falls into a hole and can not get out without its help) are on Mr. Donnelly’s list. Three more, 273, 274 and 276, are the numbers of the pages of Hamlet to which the cipher is applied most liberally. The remaining three, 306, 397 and 423, are the number of words on these three pages respectively; only those printed in Roman characters and not included within brackets being counted. In general, the system of counting adopted by Mr. Donnelly is followed. But the Hamlet cipher usually regards such forms as “’twere” and “there’s” as two distinct words; while “her selfe” and “to morrow,” as noted above, though printed without the hyphen, constitute but one word each. Bracketed and italicized words are always to be omitted, in the enumeration, except in case of the important initial word “Don,” and the word “out;” and inasmuch as these themselves are found in italics, both bracketed and italicized words are included in computing their numbers on the page. These instructions as to the method of enumeration being premised, particular attention is called to the extreme simplicity of the Hamlet cipher as compared with the key to Henry IV; which is as profusely numbered as the hairs of the righteous. This table shows at a glance, as will be seen by comparison with the following cipher narrative, all the numbers used in combination to produce the secret story which the author has discovered. Of Donnelly’s root numbers 516, 523 Of Donnelly’s modifiers 30, 50, 198 Page numbers from Hamlet 273, 274, 276 Roman words, p. 273, col. 2 306 ″ ″ ″ 274, ″ 1 397 ″ ″ ″ 276, ″ 1 423